The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a petition seeking cancellation of NEET-UG 2024 exam results and re-examination over alleged paper leak.
A vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah will hear the matter today.
It may be noted that on May 17, the Supreme Court issued notice on a petition seeking the cancellation of the test on the grounds of paper leak. However, the top court had refused to stay the results.
After the results, a slew of petitions have been filed by students and interest groups in the top court as well high courts across India.
One of the petition filed in the Supreme Court states the grant of grace marks was a mala fide excersice by the National Testing Agency to give backdoor entry to certain students. The petitioners have primarily challenged the grace marks granted to certain students over delay during the exam, and have sought to recall the results and conduct of fresh exams for admissions to NEET-UG.
The petitioners have contended that the grant of grace marks was arbitrary and it is statistically impossible to score marks as high as 718 & 719 out of 720 that were secured by several students.
The petitions further question how 67 students from one particular Centre got full 720 marks. It also states that there are several complaints about the provisional answer key being published on April 29 by NTA.
The petitioners further highlighted the widespread complaints of question paper leak of the exam held on May 5.
The petitioners have now sought a stay of the counselling to be conducted for NEET-UG 2024 admissions till the investigation into the alleged paper leak is completed.
They have further demanded constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate into the matter.
On June 8, the NTA and the Union Education Ministry announced that a four-member committee will review the results of over 1,500 candidates who were awarded grace marks to compensate for the loss of time.
Last week, the Calcutta High Court also sought NTA's response on plea alleging irregularities in the conduct of the exam.
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